Great Dixter - Architect and Gardeners: Edwin Lutyens and the Lloyd family

Panel: Fergus Garrett and Charles Hind

Host & Moderator: Robin Prater

When Edwin Lutyens first came to Great Dixter, he found a fifteenth-century house – the property of Nathaniel Lloyd – that had been greatly changed over time. His commission was to bring the house back to life. In addition to restoring the original house, architect and owner found and re-erected an early sixteenth century hall house on the property – joining both pieces with a Lutyens’s addition providing domestic quarters for the house. Over the years, the interplay of the garden and the house at Great Dixter have become world-renown.


Charles Hind, MA, FSA, is an architectural historian who holds the positions of Chief Curator and H J Heinz Curator of Drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is a Trustee of the Georgian Group and Deputy Chairman of the Lutyens Trust.

Fergus Garrett is head gardener of Great Dixter. Garrett has received the Royal Horticultural Society Associate of Honour (2008), the Veitch Memorial Medal for outstanding contribution to the practice of horticulture (2015) and the Victoria Medal of Honour (2019). He is a patron of the Beth Chatto Education Charity, and the President of the Northiam Horticultural Charity; he is on the garden advisory boards for RHS Wisley, the Landcraft Gardening Foundation and Prospect Cottage and has held the role of judge at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Links for Great Dixter Webinar
Lutyens Trust America: https://lutyenstrustamerica.com/
Lutyens Trust: https://www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/
Great Dixter House & Gardens: https://www.greatdixter.co.uk/
Friends of Great Dixter: email: [email protected]
North American Friends of Great Dixter: https://www.greatdixter.co.uk/north-a...
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Fergus Garrett: Instagram: fergusmustafasabrigarrett
RIBA Drawings & Archives Collections – Royal Institute of British Architects:
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Please consider joining our trusts:

The Lutyens Trust America. www.lutyenstrustamerica.com

The Lutyens Trust. www.lutyenstrust.org.uk